Mignon Good Eberhart was born in Lincoln's University Place neighborhood on July 6, 1899, and received her degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where she studied English and History. Known as something of an American "Agatha Christie," she gained renown for writing novels that mix mystery, suspense and romance. Among her numerous awards, she was given the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1971. Her first published novel was LINK in 1929, and she remained an active writer of mystery fiction until the late 1980s. Mignon G. Eberhart died in Greenwich, CT on October 8, 1996. Over the course of her career, she wrote 59 mystery novels and numerous short stories.

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